John S. McCollister

John S. McCollister (29 April 1947-) was a Republican member of the Nebraska Legislature from the 20th district from 16 January 2015, succeeding Brad Ashford.

Biography
John S. McCollister was born in Moline, Illinois on 29 April 1947, and his family moved to Omaha, Nebraska in 1953. McCollister worked with his family industrial-lubricants business until 2006, when it was sold to a farm cooperative, and he served on the Metropolitan Utilities District from 1978 to 2008, providing gas and water to the Omaha area. In 2014, he was elected to the Nebraska Legislature as a Republican, but he identified as "center-right"; on 5 August 2019, in the aftermath of Patrick Crusius' white supremacist terrorist attack in Dayton, Ohio, he criticized his own's party's "enabling white supremacy" and criticized President Donald Trump, whom he said "continually stokes racial fears in his base" and "lies more than he tells the truth".